{"product_id":"statues-the-second-book-of-foundations-9781472530318","title":"Statues: The Second Book of Foundations","description":"In this first English translation of one of his most important works, Michel Serres presents the statue as more than a static entity: for Serres it is the basis for knowledge, society, the subject and object, the world and experience. Serres demonstrates how sacrificial art founded and still persists in society and reflects on the centrality of death and the statufied dead body to the human condition.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eEach section covers a different time period and statuary topic, ranging from four thousand years ago to 1986; from Baal, the paintings of Carpaccio, and the Eiffel Tower, to Rodin's \u003ci\u003eThe Gates of Hell\u003c\/i\u003e, the Challenger disaster and the literature of Maupassant, La Fontaine and Jules Verne. Expository, lyrical, fictionalized and hallucinatory, Statues plays with time and place, history and story in order to provoke us into thinking in entirely new ways.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eThrough mythic and poetic meditations on various kinds of descent into the underworld and new insights into the relation of the subject and object and their foundation in death, Statues contains great treasures and provocations for philosophers, literary critics, art historians and sociologists.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eAbout the Author\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003eMichel Serres\u003c\/b\u003e is a Professor in the History of Science at Stanford University, USA and a member of the Académie Française. A renowned and popular philosopher, he is a prize-winning author of essays and books, such as \u003ci\u003eThe Five Senses\u003c\/i\u003e, \u003ci\u003eGenesis\u003c\/i\u003e, and \u003ci\u003eBiogea\u003c\/i\u003e. \u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cb\u003eRandolph Burks\u003c\/b\u003e is a philosopher specializing in phenomenology and philosophies of the body and nature. He has translated several works by Michel Serres, included \u003ci\u003eBiogea, Variations on the Body\u003c\/i\u003e and \u003ci\u003eThe Hermaphrodite\u003c\/i\u003e (forthcoming).\u003cbr\u003e","brand":"Bloomsbury Publishing PLC","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":50492571582738,"sku":"9781472530318","price":60.99,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0831\/4771\/8930\/files\/img_40d666e7-15c6-401c-94b8-55be6e588cf6.jpg?v=1730598107","url":"https:\/\/surprise-castle.myshopify.com\/products\/statues-the-second-book-of-foundations-9781472530318","provider":"Surprise Castle","version":"1.0","type":"link"}